Golf tee



Sept. 22, 1925.

J. J. BANIGAN GOLF TEE Filed June 1, 1925 NWENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 22, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

J'OHfi' J. BANIGAN, or rnovrnnucn, msons ISLAND.

GOLF TEE.

Application filed June 1, 1925. SerialNo. 34,042,

T allwhomit may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN J. BANIGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Providence, county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Golf Tee, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a portable golf tee which canreadily be adjusted to the requisite height, and which will obviate the necessity of forming the tee-by hand or otherwise by hand as is commonly practiced, ,thereby I saving both time and trouble and enabling the player to have at all times a tee ready for immediate use, and quickly adjustable. to the height most advantageous for the player.

'In the accompanying drawings F'gure 1 is atop plan new of my invention. igiH ure 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1; Fl ure 3 is an elevation of my invention, an Figure 4 is an elevation showin the tee adjusted as to hei ht with a golf all mounted upon it ready or play.

Like reference letters and numerals 1nd1- catelike parts where they occur in the drawings.

I construct the tee in the form of a frustrum of a cone, as A, from card board or other somewhat flexible material, and curve the lower edge upward and backward to form a rounded base A for the tee. Entirel around said lower edge I out vertical-y directed slits a extending upward a distance into the body-of the tee, as shown in the several views ot the drawin In order to adjustthe tee as to height it I outward, (Fig.

is depressed causing the slits a to open out and allow the lower slitted portion of the tee body tospread out fan-like thereby ensuring amore stable base for the tee. The rounded lower edge of the tee will not dig into the ground when the tee is depressed but will slide easily along as the slits open 'body is depressed to open out and allow the lower portion of the tee'body to spread out fan-like to thereby afiord a stable support for a golf ball. j

2. A ortable golf tee constructed in the form oi a. frustrum of a cone and having walls adapted to be depressed at will to vary the height of the tee, said walls provided 'with vertically directed slits disposed in the, lower portion of said w:lls and spaced a distance apart fromeach ,her and arranged and adapted to open out, hen the walls are. depressed and allow fthe lower portion of the tee to flare outward and thereby broaden the supporting base of the tee.

J OHNJ BANIGAN.

4i). and allow the lower edge 

